LMBench: Portable tools for performance analysis

USENIX 1996 Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  McVoy, Larry ^a   Staelin, Carl ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; MEMORY SYSTEMS; MICRO-BENCHMARK; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS; STRONG CORRELATION; SYSTEM APPLICATIONS; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 85084160699     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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